Okay, here we go with Chapter 15. Don't worry, we'll find out what happens with Rob in this chapter. Yeah, and I'm also starting to work on a comic (which includes Rob and Adrian, though they aren't mutants in this, they're just straight edge super heroes....), so I might start posting a lot of these chapters much more often than Monday/Friday - there's just too much story planning going on in my head, and the quicker I can get this fanfic up, the more I can do with my comic....not to mention school....ect.ect.ect.
Thanx to the reviewers!
To Snitter - I'm glad that you liked the way that Todd and Kelly are getting along. Yeah, they are happy to see each other ; ). And it's nice that you liked the Adrian/Brit moments. And like I promised, more of the X-Men in the chapters to come.
To brittany (hee, hee) - You read all my story in one sitting? Gasp!
Alison - Hey! Someone noticed the hard work it took to incorporate the book into this fic! Just wait, did I say hard work? I mean... Yeah, I was disappointed in the movie as well, I was SSSOOOO looking forward to crazy angst - perhaps the only really angsty moment was poor, poor Pyro lying in the snow - but no one was going berserk under Cerebro! I was really looking forward to Nightcrawler....Argh! Disappointment!
Guin - This chapter will be a big Gasp! I swear.
nemesis x - Yeah, quick updates rock! I'm glad that I actually wrote something that kept yer interest! You know, I usually only read humor fics as well. And I used to only write humor fics (come on, 'the sandwich of power?' What the hell is that?) But don't worry, I tried to make the chapters to come funny as well as mindblowingly dramatic... Just wait... I'm not giving anything away ; )
To everyone else - Rock!
And on a sadder note, I won't be able to update on Monday because my twin (Snitter in Rivendell on Fanfiction) is coming to visit me up here in chi-town, but maybe I'll get some free time? And this chapter was written to Le Tigre - agh! Dancing! Dancing! Instead of writing, writing!
Chapter 15
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Todd's mom drove them the rest of the way, but she dropped them off before they reached sight of the Institute as if she didn't know whether she should approach it. She bid Todd goodbye, reminded him to call, and with that she was gone.
If Todd's mom felt a little awkward about approaching the school, Todd felt even worse. He had never felt more nervous in all of his life - this was ten times more nerve-racking than anything he could remember, though he approached the school with a rise of hopeful anticipation. He would finally meet other mutants - and what would they be like?
Kelly approached the front gate, which had been pretty useless when the soldiers had invaded, but were still barring their way to the Institute nonetheless. She walked up to the gate - there was a small intercom system set up - and she pushed in the button.
" Uh, hello?," she asked into the faceless microphone, " Umm...hi, it's Kelly." She had no idea what to say.
Todd looked at the school through the gate. It seemed so painfully out of reach, yet it also looked as if there was no one there are at.
" Are you sure that someone is there?," Todd asked, peering through the gate at the blank windows.
" There are fifteen people there now, but more are coming soon," that was Scoot, slowly drawing herself out of Kelly's coat pocket. She had to stay hidden while Kelly was out in the open, but there was nothing to hide from now.
" Hi, Scoot," Todd said, " Are they mutants?"
" Yes, of course," Scoot said.
" Are any of them Rob?," Todd asked.
" No," Scoot simply stated.
" Come on," Kelly said, who had been waiting at the speaker, " Why doesn't someone answer me?"
" The intercom is broken," Scoot replied.
" That would have been useful to know BEFORE I tried it," Kelly shot back at the little version of herself.
" Isn't there like a back door or something?," Todd asked, with a joking thought that this was as close to the school as he was going to get.
" Someone is coming," Scoot said, but since she did not hide, both Kelly and Todd knew that it had to be a mutant.
Or a couple of mutants.
The Jeep came roaring up the hill as if Adrian had been competing in a race. Just before the Jeep reached the gates, he slammed on the parking brakes and skidded to a halt. Adrian ripped off his seat beat and kicked open the door as if in victory.
" Yes!!!!!!," he celebrated, " I love driving!!!!!!! Whoo-hoo!" Then he winced for the sound of his own yelling had been too much, and he answered his own torment with a simple, " Ow."
Kelly and Todd exchanged glances. Perhaps Adrian wasn't acting like someone who had just learned that his best friend had been kidnapped by a couple of radical mutants, but that was his way. From inside the car, it was obvious that Brit was probably never going to feel the same about driving again.
" You are a maniac!," Brit shouted as she stumbled out of the car.
" Hi Kelly! How have you been?," Adrian said, ignoring Brit, and running over to Kelly's side as if he was still revved up from driving, " Who's the stranger?" He was of course referring to Todd.
" Uh, this is Todd," Kelly introduced Todd for him, " He's Rob's little brother."
" Oh," Adrian replied, his voice obviously hinting that he knew something bad had happened. Todd, having suddenly been thrown in the spotlight, found himself blushing.
" Hey, I can see a resemblance," Adrian replied as Todd's face turned red.
Brit had slowly made her way from the car to the gate by that time, and addressed Todd with a completely different emotion on her voice, " You're Rob's brother?"
" He's a mutant, don't worry," Kelly said, misinterpreting Brit's anxious voice.
" What can you do?," Adrian cut in before Brit could continue. Todd didn't want to explain, he just pulled out his cell phone while at the same time he reached out and grabbed Adrian's wrist. Both of the boys looked at the cell phone monitor - there was Magneto, and a split second later, a huge piece of metal flew towards the view. Then the memory cut out.
" Oh, thanks for reminding me," Adrian mumbled as he put a hand up to the cut on his forehead.
"Cool, huh?," Kelly asked in anticipation for a compliment as if she had done something to be praised for.
" So what is that? You can show other people's memories?," Adrian asked.
" Who's memories?," Brit cut in.
" Anyone I touch, I suppose," Todd explained, " I don't know, I've only had this for a few days."
" The mutation or the phone?," Adrian asked.
" Uh, both actually," Todd answered.
Brit cast a nervous look at Adrian. He seemed to have completely overlooked the fact that Rob had been kidnapped and they would have to tell Todd, but at the moment Adrian's attention was on the school.
" You know, you didn't have to stay out here and wait for us," Adrian said as he walked up to the gates.
" The intercom is broken," Kelly explained. Adrian scoffed at the idea.
" No problem," he said, grabbing Brit's hand, and in a flash, they was gone. Todd started at this - he had never seen anyone just vanish into thin air, but of course, where would he have?
" It's okay, that's what he does, he is a teleporter," Kelly explained as Adrian and Brit reappeared on the other side of the gate.
" And a pain in the ass," Brit shouted as she sat down on the pavement, raising her voice just to annoy him.
Adrian rolled his eyes when she yelled, "And after all I do for you," he mumbled, and teleported to Kelly's side.
" Where did you get a car from?," Kelly asked, for she knew well enough that Adrian didn't have a car.
" I don't know, we just woke up in one," Adrian explained, and they both teleported. They reappeared a moment later on the other side of the gate. Adrian was hardly visible for a second when he reappeared standing next to Todd.
" You woke up in one?," Kelly asked in disbelief, but Adrian ignored her.
" Ready to go?," Adrian asked Todd, for Todd seemed completely unsure about whether or not he wanted to teleport.
" Uh, I guess," Todd said, but before he could say anything else, Adrian grabbed his wrist and they teleported. Todd was momentarily afraid, but they reappeared on the other side of the gate before any other emotions could swell.
" How was that?," Adrian asked.
" I'm dizzy," Todd mumbled.
" First time for everything," Adrian simply said as if teleporting was something that everyone would have to do someday.
" So I'm guessing that you were one of us that DIDN'T get captured, huh," Adrian said to Kelly as he walked past both Brit and Todd.
" Isn't that obvious?," Kelly said - she didn't know that there were other students that had been captured - but she didn't read into what Adrian had tried to say, that they HAD been captured.
" Lucky you," Adrian replied, agitated that Kelly had missed his point, while building himself up to what he would have to tell Todd.
" Just wait, you got captured?," Todd asked, catching up to the two as Brit followed behind all three, " How did you escape?"
" Hey Brit, how DID we escape?," Adrian asked, " Was it the crazy professor guy or the blue lady? I keep forgetting."
Kelly thought that he was being sarcastic once again, " Can't you ever grow up?"
" That's what happened though," Brit said, finally catching up to the group and grabbing onto Todd's arm as an act of support, " Oh, god, I'm sorry. It's just been a long couple of days. We got captured by some of those soldiers, and we were taken to this really creepy lab place. I don't know what they were going to do to us, because this, like, professor let us escape, but then he changed into this blue woman and then Adrian got knocked out by this huge piece of metal, and then I did, but before I got knocked out I looked through the walls and I saw them, and they were KIDNAPPING Rob!"
She said all of this incredibly fast.
" Bravo," Adrian said in his most sarcastic tone, for that was definitely not the way to tell someone something like that.
" Huh?," Todd said, because he only grasped a few points of the whole thing, " Just wait - did you say someone kidnapped Rob?"
By that time, they had reached the front doors of the mansion - and before anyone could say anything else about the kidnapping incident, the door flung open.
" Hey, you guys remembered where this school was, huh?," it was Bobby. He looked up and noticed the Jeep sitting down by the front gates, " Cool Jeep."
" My brother got kidnapped and all you care about is a stupid car?!," Todd nearly shouted.
Adrian winced in an annoyed way and whispered back, " Can you try not to shout next time."
" Huh?," Bobby asked, having been caught in the middle of a conversation.
Adrian looked at Bobby and shrugged, " Yep, Rob got kidnapped."
" Who got kidnapped?," that was Scott Summers, but he had an air of disbelief on his voice as he made his way to the door. Todd didn't even both to say anything, he just handed the cell phone over to Scott (wondering if he could even SEE through those glasses) and he used his powers to replay the memory that Brit had unknowingly given him when they touched.
Scott looked at the screen, and immediately he knew something was terribly wrong. Through Brit's memories, Scott could see that Rob had been kidnapped. Of course, it was obvious from looking on the screen that Magneto was involved with it, and that could have terrible consequences. All the teachers at Xavier's institute had been told what Rob's true power was - that he had the ability to alter another mutants mutation - and if Magneto knew as well...
" Who are you?," Scott asked Todd.
" Todd Vincennes," Todd answered meekly, quailing under the presence of a much older mutant. That immediately told Scott that Todd was Rob's brother.
" Todd, come with me," Scott said, knowing that he had to see Xavier immediately, " The rest of you just..." But he trailed off, and after arriving at no conclusions on what they should be doing, he turned away and left. Todd held back for a second.
" How can he afford glasses like that?," Todd whispered, wondering for a second how much glasses like that would have to cost and where a mutant could even get a job to pay for them.
" How can he afford not to?," Brit returned, but Todd had no idea what she meant by that. He merely left the group and followed this complete stranger.
When he was gone, Bobby replied, "Rob got kidnapped?"
" Yep. It's a wonderful story, but there's no way I'm telling you without that phone," Adrian replied, " Anyway, how have you been." Adrian was using a voice that was mockingly casual.
" I was in the Oval Office," Bobby beamed.
" Cool," Adrian replied, " What were you there for? A recreation of the mutant assassin attack?"
" Hey, you know, that mutant's here," Bobby realized, then added quietly " And don't freak out, he didn't try to kill the president, I guess it was just mind control or something like that."
" The mutant assassin attacker? The mutant assassin attacker is here?," Adrian said in a voice of tremendously fake disbelief. He had thought that Bobby was joking with him, but without warning, Nightcrawler teleported into the room with a characteristic BAMF!, yet shyly kept his distance from these teens that he had never met before.
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Rob slowly opened his eyes, but everything he saw was completely fuzzy and unclear so he closed his eyes again. He felt terrible - his head was pounding as he tried to wake up. It felt like it would be impossible, so he ended up simply trying to recall where he was and how he got there.
The last thing that he remembered was the attack on the school - getting away from the danger with Adrian and Brit, and then the light. The voice that came out from behind it. It was his father.
Rob groaned. What had happened?
But more of his memories were coming back to him as he slowly slipped away from sleepiness - he remembered waking up underwater (which was nice), but realizing where he was. He remembered opening his eyes and seeing his dad - and being terribly confused. Now Rob understood. His father had a deep love for evolutionary theory, and it was obvious enough to Rob now that he was just an experiment in his father's eyes. He didn't know HOW he knew that this is what his father had been doing with him - he just had a suspicion that his dad would do something like that if he had the opportunity.
Rob groaned again as he became more awake. His head was killing him.
" Hey, are you waking up or what?," that voice was so familiar.
" I guess," Rob replied softly, " Where am I?"
The voice did not answer him, but Rob hardly seemed to care. He KNEW that voice, but at the moment, he simply could not place it, until....
" Pyro!," Rob suddenly declared, becoming wide awake and turning to see John standing over him, " What the hell?" Rob seemed more confused than anything else. The last thing he remembered was being underwater and in a lab. This didn't make sense.
" What do you want?," Rob asked, slowly bringing himself to a sitting position.
" I don't want anything," Pyro replied as if he was being blamed for something, " It's Magneto that wants something."
" Huh? Who? Magneto?," Rob said. He had heard Magneto's name before, but he didn't understand what was going on.
Before Pyro could say anything else, a pen on the desk levitated itself a few inches off the surface. It was as if Magneto was announcing his presence, but Rob had not even seen it.
" Yeah," Pyro said, donning a more aloof attitude towards Rob that made him appear much more tough, " He's awake."
And with that, Magneto walked in through the door - and just as suddenly, Rob made the connection. He remembered who Magneto was. He remembered hearing Rogue talk about him - he had tried to kill her in order to force all the world leaders to become mutants. She had only been saved because of the X-Men - and now Rob was here!
" Hey, just wait!," Rob said, startled beyond belief, and then looked angrily at Pyro, " What's going on?"
" Hey, man, nobody messes with Pyro," Pyro said with a smile, referring to when Rob had used his powers against him at the Institute.
" You set me up!," Rob shouted in disbelief - mostly because Pyro had joined up with Magneto.
Before Pyro could say anything - Rob suddenly disappeared. He knew that Rob was only using his powers, but still, it took him by surprise. It didn't matter. It's not like he could have gotten far even if he were to escape.
" Rob, don't get upset. We want you to help us," Magneto spoke for the first time, in a reassuring voice, for Rob's power had no effect upon him while he was wearing his helmet - but Rob would have none of that.
" No! You're crazy! No way," Rob felt extremely cornered, and even more desperate that he could not use his powers to free himself, " There's no way I'm helping you."
" Oh, but you will," Magneto said with a smile. In his hand, there was a syringe filled with a yellow liquid. Rob looked at it for a moment, having no way to know what it was.
" You will."
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Next chapter up soon!
Please review!
Thanx to the reviewers!
To Snitter - I'm glad that you liked the way that Todd and Kelly are getting along. Yeah, they are happy to see each other ; ). And it's nice that you liked the Adrian/Brit moments. And like I promised, more of the X-Men in the chapters to come.
To brittany (hee, hee) - You read all my story in one sitting? Gasp!
Alison - Hey! Someone noticed the hard work it took to incorporate the book into this fic! Just wait, did I say hard work? I mean... Yeah, I was disappointed in the movie as well, I was SSSOOOO looking forward to crazy angst - perhaps the only really angsty moment was poor, poor Pyro lying in the snow - but no one was going berserk under Cerebro! I was really looking forward to Nightcrawler....Argh! Disappointment!
Guin - This chapter will be a big Gasp! I swear.
nemesis x - Yeah, quick updates rock! I'm glad that I actually wrote something that kept yer interest! You know, I usually only read humor fics as well. And I used to only write humor fics (come on, 'the sandwich of power?' What the hell is that?) But don't worry, I tried to make the chapters to come funny as well as mindblowingly dramatic... Just wait... I'm not giving anything away ; )
To everyone else - Rock!
And on a sadder note, I won't be able to update on Monday because my twin (Snitter in Rivendell on Fanfiction) is coming to visit me up here in chi-town, but maybe I'll get some free time? And this chapter was written to Le Tigre - agh! Dancing! Dancing! Instead of writing, writing!
Chapter 15
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Todd's mom drove them the rest of the way, but she dropped them off before they reached sight of the Institute as if she didn't know whether she should approach it. She bid Todd goodbye, reminded him to call, and with that she was gone.
If Todd's mom felt a little awkward about approaching the school, Todd felt even worse. He had never felt more nervous in all of his life - this was ten times more nerve-racking than anything he could remember, though he approached the school with a rise of hopeful anticipation. He would finally meet other mutants - and what would they be like?
Kelly approached the front gate, which had been pretty useless when the soldiers had invaded, but were still barring their way to the Institute nonetheless. She walked up to the gate - there was a small intercom system set up - and she pushed in the button.
" Uh, hello?," she asked into the faceless microphone, " Umm...hi, it's Kelly." She had no idea what to say.
Todd looked at the school through the gate. It seemed so painfully out of reach, yet it also looked as if there was no one there are at.
" Are you sure that someone is there?," Todd asked, peering through the gate at the blank windows.
" There are fifteen people there now, but more are coming soon," that was Scoot, slowly drawing herself out of Kelly's coat pocket. She had to stay hidden while Kelly was out in the open, but there was nothing to hide from now.
" Hi, Scoot," Todd said, " Are they mutants?"
" Yes, of course," Scoot said.
" Are any of them Rob?," Todd asked.
" No," Scoot simply stated.
" Come on," Kelly said, who had been waiting at the speaker, " Why doesn't someone answer me?"
" The intercom is broken," Scoot replied.
" That would have been useful to know BEFORE I tried it," Kelly shot back at the little version of herself.
" Isn't there like a back door or something?," Todd asked, with a joking thought that this was as close to the school as he was going to get.
" Someone is coming," Scoot said, but since she did not hide, both Kelly and Todd knew that it had to be a mutant.
Or a couple of mutants.
The Jeep came roaring up the hill as if Adrian had been competing in a race. Just before the Jeep reached the gates, he slammed on the parking brakes and skidded to a halt. Adrian ripped off his seat beat and kicked open the door as if in victory.
" Yes!!!!!!," he celebrated, " I love driving!!!!!!! Whoo-hoo!" Then he winced for the sound of his own yelling had been too much, and he answered his own torment with a simple, " Ow."
Kelly and Todd exchanged glances. Perhaps Adrian wasn't acting like someone who had just learned that his best friend had been kidnapped by a couple of radical mutants, but that was his way. From inside the car, it was obvious that Brit was probably never going to feel the same about driving again.
" You are a maniac!," Brit shouted as she stumbled out of the car.
" Hi Kelly! How have you been?," Adrian said, ignoring Brit, and running over to Kelly's side as if he was still revved up from driving, " Who's the stranger?" He was of course referring to Todd.
" Uh, this is Todd," Kelly introduced Todd for him, " He's Rob's little brother."
" Oh," Adrian replied, his voice obviously hinting that he knew something bad had happened. Todd, having suddenly been thrown in the spotlight, found himself blushing.
" Hey, I can see a resemblance," Adrian replied as Todd's face turned red.
Brit had slowly made her way from the car to the gate by that time, and addressed Todd with a completely different emotion on her voice, " You're Rob's brother?"
" He's a mutant, don't worry," Kelly said, misinterpreting Brit's anxious voice.
" What can you do?," Adrian cut in before Brit could continue. Todd didn't want to explain, he just pulled out his cell phone while at the same time he reached out and grabbed Adrian's wrist. Both of the boys looked at the cell phone monitor - there was Magneto, and a split second later, a huge piece of metal flew towards the view. Then the memory cut out.
" Oh, thanks for reminding me," Adrian mumbled as he put a hand up to the cut on his forehead.
"Cool, huh?," Kelly asked in anticipation for a compliment as if she had done something to be praised for.
" So what is that? You can show other people's memories?," Adrian asked.
" Who's memories?," Brit cut in.
" Anyone I touch, I suppose," Todd explained, " I don't know, I've only had this for a few days."
" The mutation or the phone?," Adrian asked.
" Uh, both actually," Todd answered.
Brit cast a nervous look at Adrian. He seemed to have completely overlooked the fact that Rob had been kidnapped and they would have to tell Todd, but at the moment Adrian's attention was on the school.
" You know, you didn't have to stay out here and wait for us," Adrian said as he walked up to the gates.
" The intercom is broken," Kelly explained. Adrian scoffed at the idea.
" No problem," he said, grabbing Brit's hand, and in a flash, they was gone. Todd started at this - he had never seen anyone just vanish into thin air, but of course, where would he have?
" It's okay, that's what he does, he is a teleporter," Kelly explained as Adrian and Brit reappeared on the other side of the gate.
" And a pain in the ass," Brit shouted as she sat down on the pavement, raising her voice just to annoy him.
Adrian rolled his eyes when she yelled, "And after all I do for you," he mumbled, and teleported to Kelly's side.
" Where did you get a car from?," Kelly asked, for she knew well enough that Adrian didn't have a car.
" I don't know, we just woke up in one," Adrian explained, and they both teleported. They reappeared a moment later on the other side of the gate. Adrian was hardly visible for a second when he reappeared standing next to Todd.
" You woke up in one?," Kelly asked in disbelief, but Adrian ignored her.
" Ready to go?," Adrian asked Todd, for Todd seemed completely unsure about whether or not he wanted to teleport.
" Uh, I guess," Todd said, but before he could say anything else, Adrian grabbed his wrist and they teleported. Todd was momentarily afraid, but they reappeared on the other side of the gate before any other emotions could swell.
" How was that?," Adrian asked.
" I'm dizzy," Todd mumbled.
" First time for everything," Adrian simply said as if teleporting was something that everyone would have to do someday.
" So I'm guessing that you were one of us that DIDN'T get captured, huh," Adrian said to Kelly as he walked past both Brit and Todd.
" Isn't that obvious?," Kelly said - she didn't know that there were other students that had been captured - but she didn't read into what Adrian had tried to say, that they HAD been captured.
" Lucky you," Adrian replied, agitated that Kelly had missed his point, while building himself up to what he would have to tell Todd.
" Just wait, you got captured?," Todd asked, catching up to the two as Brit followed behind all three, " How did you escape?"
" Hey Brit, how DID we escape?," Adrian asked, " Was it the crazy professor guy or the blue lady? I keep forgetting."
Kelly thought that he was being sarcastic once again, " Can't you ever grow up?"
" That's what happened though," Brit said, finally catching up to the group and grabbing onto Todd's arm as an act of support, " Oh, god, I'm sorry. It's just been a long couple of days. We got captured by some of those soldiers, and we were taken to this really creepy lab place. I don't know what they were going to do to us, because this, like, professor let us escape, but then he changed into this blue woman and then Adrian got knocked out by this huge piece of metal, and then I did, but before I got knocked out I looked through the walls and I saw them, and they were KIDNAPPING Rob!"
She said all of this incredibly fast.
" Bravo," Adrian said in his most sarcastic tone, for that was definitely not the way to tell someone something like that.
" Huh?," Todd said, because he only grasped a few points of the whole thing, " Just wait - did you say someone kidnapped Rob?"
By that time, they had reached the front doors of the mansion - and before anyone could say anything else about the kidnapping incident, the door flung open.
" Hey, you guys remembered where this school was, huh?," it was Bobby. He looked up and noticed the Jeep sitting down by the front gates, " Cool Jeep."
" My brother got kidnapped and all you care about is a stupid car?!," Todd nearly shouted.
Adrian winced in an annoyed way and whispered back, " Can you try not to shout next time."
" Huh?," Bobby asked, having been caught in the middle of a conversation.
Adrian looked at Bobby and shrugged, " Yep, Rob got kidnapped."
" Who got kidnapped?," that was Scott Summers, but he had an air of disbelief on his voice as he made his way to the door. Todd didn't even both to say anything, he just handed the cell phone over to Scott (wondering if he could even SEE through those glasses) and he used his powers to replay the memory that Brit had unknowingly given him when they touched.
Scott looked at the screen, and immediately he knew something was terribly wrong. Through Brit's memories, Scott could see that Rob had been kidnapped. Of course, it was obvious from looking on the screen that Magneto was involved with it, and that could have terrible consequences. All the teachers at Xavier's institute had been told what Rob's true power was - that he had the ability to alter another mutants mutation - and if Magneto knew as well...
" Who are you?," Scott asked Todd.
" Todd Vincennes," Todd answered meekly, quailing under the presence of a much older mutant. That immediately told Scott that Todd was Rob's brother.
" Todd, come with me," Scott said, knowing that he had to see Xavier immediately, " The rest of you just..." But he trailed off, and after arriving at no conclusions on what they should be doing, he turned away and left. Todd held back for a second.
" How can he afford glasses like that?," Todd whispered, wondering for a second how much glasses like that would have to cost and where a mutant could even get a job to pay for them.
" How can he afford not to?," Brit returned, but Todd had no idea what she meant by that. He merely left the group and followed this complete stranger.
When he was gone, Bobby replied, "Rob got kidnapped?"
" Yep. It's a wonderful story, but there's no way I'm telling you without that phone," Adrian replied, " Anyway, how have you been." Adrian was using a voice that was mockingly casual.
" I was in the Oval Office," Bobby beamed.
" Cool," Adrian replied, " What were you there for? A recreation of the mutant assassin attack?"
" Hey, you know, that mutant's here," Bobby realized, then added quietly " And don't freak out, he didn't try to kill the president, I guess it was just mind control or something like that."
" The mutant assassin attacker? The mutant assassin attacker is here?," Adrian said in a voice of tremendously fake disbelief. He had thought that Bobby was joking with him, but without warning, Nightcrawler teleported into the room with a characteristic BAMF!, yet shyly kept his distance from these teens that he had never met before.
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Rob slowly opened his eyes, but everything he saw was completely fuzzy and unclear so he closed his eyes again. He felt terrible - his head was pounding as he tried to wake up. It felt like it would be impossible, so he ended up simply trying to recall where he was and how he got there.
The last thing that he remembered was the attack on the school - getting away from the danger with Adrian and Brit, and then the light. The voice that came out from behind it. It was his father.
Rob groaned. What had happened?
But more of his memories were coming back to him as he slowly slipped away from sleepiness - he remembered waking up underwater (which was nice), but realizing where he was. He remembered opening his eyes and seeing his dad - and being terribly confused. Now Rob understood. His father had a deep love for evolutionary theory, and it was obvious enough to Rob now that he was just an experiment in his father's eyes. He didn't know HOW he knew that this is what his father had been doing with him - he just had a suspicion that his dad would do something like that if he had the opportunity.
Rob groaned again as he became more awake. His head was killing him.
" Hey, are you waking up or what?," that voice was so familiar.
" I guess," Rob replied softly, " Where am I?"
The voice did not answer him, but Rob hardly seemed to care. He KNEW that voice, but at the moment, he simply could not place it, until....
" Pyro!," Rob suddenly declared, becoming wide awake and turning to see John standing over him, " What the hell?" Rob seemed more confused than anything else. The last thing he remembered was being underwater and in a lab. This didn't make sense.
" What do you want?," Rob asked, slowly bringing himself to a sitting position.
" I don't want anything," Pyro replied as if he was being blamed for something, " It's Magneto that wants something."
" Huh? Who? Magneto?," Rob said. He had heard Magneto's name before, but he didn't understand what was going on.
Before Pyro could say anything else, a pen on the desk levitated itself a few inches off the surface. It was as if Magneto was announcing his presence, but Rob had not even seen it.
" Yeah," Pyro said, donning a more aloof attitude towards Rob that made him appear much more tough, " He's awake."
And with that, Magneto walked in through the door - and just as suddenly, Rob made the connection. He remembered who Magneto was. He remembered hearing Rogue talk about him - he had tried to kill her in order to force all the world leaders to become mutants. She had only been saved because of the X-Men - and now Rob was here!
" Hey, just wait!," Rob said, startled beyond belief, and then looked angrily at Pyro, " What's going on?"
" Hey, man, nobody messes with Pyro," Pyro said with a smile, referring to when Rob had used his powers against him at the Institute.
" You set me up!," Rob shouted in disbelief - mostly because Pyro had joined up with Magneto.
Before Pyro could say anything - Rob suddenly disappeared. He knew that Rob was only using his powers, but still, it took him by surprise. It didn't matter. It's not like he could have gotten far even if he were to escape.
" Rob, don't get upset. We want you to help us," Magneto spoke for the first time, in a reassuring voice, for Rob's power had no effect upon him while he was wearing his helmet - but Rob would have none of that.
" No! You're crazy! No way," Rob felt extremely cornered, and even more desperate that he could not use his powers to free himself, " There's no way I'm helping you."
" Oh, but you will," Magneto said with a smile. In his hand, there was a syringe filled with a yellow liquid. Rob looked at it for a moment, having no way to know what it was.
" You will."
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